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“What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.”

Looks Helping Brain Creativity Creative Perspective Universal Be Creative

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.”

Thinking Knows Wells Might Brain Awful

Author:Marian McPartland

“I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.”

People Trying Done Artist Brain Tired I'm Tired Tired Of Trying

Author:Todd McFarlane

“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.”

Way Body Sports Brain Rocks Movement Wall Higher Lows Your Body Climbing Rock Climbing Persuading

Author:Jo Nesbo

“What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?”

Mean Persons Different Action Process Brain Crazy Goes On Disease Responsible Mad Slave Chemicals

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.”

Thinking Needs Brain Authority

Author:Sam Neill

“Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.”

Needs Bigs Brain Breakfast

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.”

Mind Brain Sea Conscious Ships Mysterious Obscure

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”

Knows Writing Matter Speak Brain Subjects Calm Block Plot Translations Subject Matter

Author:Tea Obreht

“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”

Book Brain Nonfiction

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.”

World Said War Brain Boys Insane Insanity War Of The Worlds Nurse Pads

Author:Bob Dylan

“A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.”

Ifs Facts Brain Education

Author:Ani DiFranco

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”

Men Facts Causes Brain Known Five Feet Television Tvs Proof Medical Damage Narcotics

Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.”

Knows Giving Littles Brain Watches Snow Shakes Globes

Author:Gary Larson

“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”

Knows Trying Bigs Brain Break Saws Football Hero Mets Beats England Studios Drunk Scotland My Hero Refrigerators Football Match

Author:Andy Partridge

“You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.”

Character Actors Brain Directors

Author:Anne Parillaud

“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.”

Thinking Space Brain One Thing Dating Working It Time To Think

Author:Chris Pine

“With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.”

Thinking Real Light Brain Shadow Perceive Gravity Cgi

Author:Nick Park

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

Enough Parent Brain Risk Teenager Uncertain Weeping Evaluate Skip Uncertain Future Volvo

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.”

Thinking Way Different Reason Games Fun Brain Playing Games

Author:John Romero

“I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.”

People Choices Brain Conditions Size Transgender Physiological Hypothalamus

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.”

World Moving Actors Brain Creative Alive Loneliness Boring Believer Cells Inevitable Drought Brain Cells

Author:Nikki Reed

“If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.”

Ifs Needs Persons Hands Brain Fronts Kitchen

Author:Rene Redzepi

“I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.”

Knows Humor Funny Song Brain Comedy Islands Theme Triangles

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.”

Thinking Humor Funny Brain Comedy Thirds Miles Snaps Flyers

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.”

Knows Needs Book Easy Stuff Brain Nice Bed Metaphysical Tranquil Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.”

Thinking Kids Form Brain Music Is Intelligent Communicate Cells Retarded Retard Intelligent Life Brain Cells Koalas

Author:Kid Koala

“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”

Thinking World Past Artist Bits Brain Information Computer

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.”

Mind Made Reality Emotion Brain Awareness Buddhism Infinite Series Endless Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.”

Animal Brain Strange Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.”

Stuff Brain Filling

Author:Jim Thome

“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”

Given Wish Brain Easier Waste Appreciate I've Learned Wasting Time Things I've Learned

Author:Laini Taylor

“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.”

Thinking Humans Important Facts Care Song Simple Brain Opinion Trump Periods Easier Important Things Don't Care I Don't Care Melody Human Brain

Author:Ryan Tedder

“Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.”

Important Memories Brain Google

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”

Ifs Mean Brain Intelligent Intelligence Smart People Smartness Active Minds Funniness

Author:Amber Valletta

“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”

Children Has Beens Age Brain Five Six Computer Our Children Comparison Metals Toys

Author:Claude Vorilhon

“Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.”

Thinking Should Helping Brain Creativity Mines Sake Ran Each Day Realising Naps

Author:Amy Waldman

“As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.”

Mother Brain Changed Son Findings Excited Damage Injury Small Parts Brain Injury Traumatic Brain Injury

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.”

Thinking Long Enough Brain Neurosis Aversion Egotistical Separating

Author:Mae Whitman

“Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.”

Ideas Brain Expression Pure Fancy Pants

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.”

Kind Use Brain Ready Framework Invaluable

Author:Will Ferrell

“My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.”

Ifs Feels Wells May Doe Ideas Ends Shows Happens Night Fall My Own Brain Late Falling In Love Scripts Why Not Late Night I May Not Be

Author:Jen Kirkman

“The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.”

Mind Body Brain Buddhism Structure Intuitive Physical Body Cellular

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”

People Writing Hands School Bits Can Do Mistake Brain Smart Training University Finished Dirty Nonsense Engines Bats Surgery Truck Smart People Assembling Brain Surgery Finished School

Author:Jasper Fforde

“There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.”

Men Ideas Science Brain Frogs Marshes Wrong Ideas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan